The Crown - fact or fiction?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Major TV series The Crown is back - series five - and it deals with one of the most painful and excruciatingly public decades of recent Royal history. Diana's tell-all book with Andrew Morton, Charles's intimate phonecalls with Camilla, the Queen's popularity with her public and the early years of the young Prince William and Prince Harry. Every new season brings with it questions as to what is fact in the show, and what is fiction.
So today, we look at not just the drama, but the political, social, historic context of those times. We talk to one of THE great authorities on the Royal Family - Tina Brown -author of the best selling book The Palace Papers & The Diana Chronicles - who tells us about the conversation over lunch she shared with Diana just a month before she died. And we look at the Prime Ministers portrayed in the Crown - why does historical fact need to be altered and dramatised?
Planning: Melissa Tutesigensi
Socials: Georgia Foxwell
Video: Will Gibson-Smith
Production: Gabriel Radus
Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes
Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:13.0 | 1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. |
| 0:22.6 | In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondence, |
| 0:26.6 | it has turned out to be an anis horribilis. |
| 0:31.6 | In light of the events of the last 12 months, |
| 0:36.6 | perhaps I have more to reflect on than most. |
| 0:41.7 | That was, of course, Her Majesty, Imelda Staunton. |
| 0:46.0 | Or do we mean the late Queen? |
| 0:48.5 | The Crown is back. |
| 0:50.8 | And today on the newsagents, we're trying to piece together where the fiction ends and the |
| 0:56.3 | fact begins or where the facts end and the drama begins. See it however you like. Is this history, |
| 1:03.7 | is this documentary or is this drama? There are so many questions, but it does come to certain |
| 1:10.2 | kernels of truth about our society, |
| 1:13.8 | about the way the royal family interacted with politicians and the media. |
| 1:19.2 | And that's what we want to consider. |
| 1:21.5 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:26.1 | It's John. It's Emily. And we are at Newsagents |
| 1:27.5 | It's John |
| 1:29.0 | It's Emily |
| 1:29.7 | And we are at Newsagents' headquarters |
| 1:32.7 | And I guess like an awful lot of people |
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